Bonus: Mal Blum's villain era
Gender Reveal4 Aug 2025

Bonus: Mal Blum's villain era

Tuck and Mal chat about how 2010s Brooklyn hurt Mal's relationship to masculinity, whether reading a book would help kids understand song lyrics, and why Mal is putting "he" pronouns in timeout until you all earn them back.

Listen to the full episode on Patreon to hear discussions of Geminis vs Cancers, personal gossip, new transmasc slurs, Hatchet (1987), stolen transfeminine valor, TikTok, touring, getting physically cut out of childhood photos, and deciding how mean and messy to get in a breakup album. Plus, Tuck tells Mal a secret they've been holding for five years wow.

Find Mal on tour now! Mal is also at malblum.com and ffm.bio/malblum.

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Senior Producer: Ozzy Llinas Goodman
Logo: Ira M. Leigh
Music: Breakmaster Cylinder
Additional Music: Mal Blum

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Episode 104: Jackie Ess

Episode 104: Jackie Ess

Tuck speaks with Jackie Ess (she/her), author of Darryl. Topics include: The future of trans literature (whatever that means) Writing from the outside and avoiding tokenization How to avoid being t...

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Episode 103: Frankie de la Cretaz

Episode 103: Frankie de la Cretaz

Tuck speaks with sports writer Frankie de la Cretaz (they/them). Topics include: Can sports be reformed? How do trans sports bans affect transmasc athletes? Sobriety, gender, and the cisheteronorma...

8 Nov 202154min

Episode 102: Live in NYC!

Episode 102: Live in NYC!

Tuck speaks with writer Denne Michele Norris (she/her), cartoonist Mattie Lubchansky (they/them) and organizer Mateo Guerrero (he/they) at Starr Bar in Bushwick. Topics include: Setting boundaries ...

1 Nov 20211h

Episode 101: Gender 101, revisited.

Episode 101: Gender 101, revisited.

Welcome to Gender Reveal! This week, we revisit our very first episode — and by "revisit" I mean "throw the entire thing out and start from scratch." Topics include: Is biological sex, like, real? Ho...

25 Okt 202121min

BONUS: bad news / good news!

BONUS: bad news / good news!

Tuck explains what's going on with this season of Gender Reveal, and announces our upcoming live show. Buy live show tickets at https://gendernyc.bpt.me. Browse our limited-edition August merch in our...

17 Aug 20215min

Episode 100E: Carmen Maria Machado

Episode 100E: Carmen Maria Machado

Tuck chats with author Carmen Maria Machado (she/her) to wrap up Cis Day of Visibility. Topics include: The horrors of living in a gendered body Doing a press tour about your trauma Writing about gen...

12 Aug 202133min

Episode 100D: Tobin Low

Episode 100D: Tobin Low

Tuck chats with Nancy co-creator Tobin Low (he/him) as Cis Day of Visibility continues. Topics include: Lessons learned from making Nancy What does masculinity mean, and do we care? Is the cis-trans ...

9 Aug 202142min

BONUS: Wait, Is This a Date?

BONUS: Wait, Is This a Date?

Whoops! We made an episode for today, but instead of airing it, we're sharing a new podcast that we're genuinely hyped to hear. Learn more about Wait, Is thIs a Date? on Autostraddle. Find them on Tw...

5 Aug 202117min

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